Welcome to Thrift Soham

The Thrift CLT aims to:Provide and manage well designed, high quality and energy efficient affordable homes for local people, provide other community assets to help employment and skills and to help our community remain sustainable.

What is a Community Land Trust?Community Land Trusts (or CLTs) are when people from a village, street, neighbourhood or town get together to create a charitable organisation for the good of their community. Run completely by volunteers, the management trustees are voted for by its members. A CLT strives to meet the long-term needs of its community, for example building permanently affordable housing, workspaces or acquiring pubs, gardens and shops; these then stay owned by the community forever.

The Carpenters Arms

The Carpenters Arms is threatened with closure and conversion into housing.

Thrift Community Land Trust for Soham believes this would be a huge loss to Soham. It has been a popular traditional pub and we believe with the right help it can continue to provide an important venue for the community. We need to find out whether the community is prepared to support this.